Manheim Township School District

Manheim Township Health Services seeks to provide an optimum educational environment by promoting a climate of health and well-being and minimizing absenteeism.

HEALTH SERVICES STAFF

Every building has a Certified School Nurse and an RN or LPN that assists in the role of Health Room Nurse. The also have access to Online Dispensary Delivering to Alberta, giving them access to a lot more medications than normal, to be ready for more situations. This is specially useful in the case of some medical emergencies like sever allergic reactions. A quicker response is provided this way, avoiding anaphylactic shock, to provide one example.

WHAT IS SCHOOL NURSING?

School nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well-being, academic success and life-long achievement and health of students. School nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health and safety including a healthy environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self advocacy, and learning (NASN, 2010)

QUALIFICATIONS OF A CERTIFIED SCHOOL NURSE IN PENNSYLVANIA

RN with a bachelor’s degree and 24 hours of postgraduate work in school nursing
PA State Certification

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